Raw Story has posted a pdf of a very curious memo.
This memo, leaked from someone who worked in Georgia's (then) Sec. of State Cathy Cox's office (more on her below), seems to show that red flags went up in Georgia after it was discovered that the (then) president of Diebold applied patches in only two predominantly-Democratic counties.
This pdf seems to indicate that in Dec. 2002, Cox sent Diebold a fax (see pdf link above) asking Diebold President Bob Urosevich if his patch (which, again, was applied in only two Democratic-dominated counties) necessitated those voting machines to be re-certified.
Apparently, per the date of the pdf, Cox didn't know the patch was applied before the election.
The fax asked for confirmation that the "0808 patch was applied to all systems; confirmation that the patch was not grounds for requiring the system to be recertified at national and state level; as well as verifiable analysis of the overall impact of the patch to the voting system"...
The article goes on to discuss the whistleblower who is allegedly from Cox's office. This whisteblower contacted cyber-security expert Stephen Spoonamore (who is involved with exposing Ohio election fraud), who in turn contacted the Justice Department apparently:
Documents show Georgia's Secretary of State knew of Diebold patch
What initially raised questions, according to the source, was the behavior of then-Diebold CEO, Bob Urosevich, who personally flew in from Texas and applied the patch in just two counties, DeKalb and Fulton, both Democratic strongholds.
Another flag went up, this person added, when it became apparent that the patch installed by Urosevich had failed to fix a problem with the computer clock -- which employees from Diebold and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office had been told the patch was designed specifically to address.
The Secretary of State’s office became aware of this installation during the month after the November 2002 election, as the documents are dated Dec. 3. It's unclear how Cox handled the findings once she was made aware of the patch installation and other technical issues cited in the documents.
Finally, Wikipedia seems to indicate that Cathy Cox, while a Democrat, appears to be of the Dixiecrat flavor, i.e. the vote suppressing type:
In 2004, Cox rejected all 63 voter registration applications on the basis that they did not follow correct procedures. The procedures not followed included obtaining specific pre-clearance from the state to conduct their drive. A suit was filed, Charles H. Wesley Education Foundation v. Cathy Cox, on the basis that the rejection of the registrations violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by undermining voter registration drives. A Senior U.S. District Judge upheld earlier federal court decisions in the case, and found that private entities have a right under the NVRA to engage in organized voter registration activity in Georgia at times and locations of their choosing, without the presence or permission of state or local election officials.[2]
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So this memo seems to show that red flags went up at the Georgia Sec. of State's office after they belatedly found out about the president of Diebold flying in to personally apply a patch to election machines in two Democratic counties.
What happened after that is up to us find out....